Since Okno is currently working on a programme about community networks, mesh networks and ecological technology, we are participating in the next issue of 34.sk [theme "telematic networking / imaginary broadcasting / experimental mobility"], investigating possibilities for new critical productions.

For this purpose I proposed a section on structural-institutional culture/art critique, but in a varied and broad sense. This to avoid too long theoretical divertations and rather concentrate on practice. Also we use culture and arts inappropriately as synonymously, with a strong contextual and social level.

realizing the other day that sitting here and talking to someone about a subject, and also thinking about sound and patching it up in a little sound machine (most of the time ending up with something different than the initial idea) is far easier both than switching this computer on and tapping in a consistent and understandable text... more

in the 21st century no one will be equal but choices between different things will be radically reduced in a gracious unity of all contradictions due to auto-referencing turning everything and everyone into a synonym... more

Okno public brought together a good mix of practitioners into a flexibly moderated set of talks, discussions and performances. During the workshop I was left thinking about the distance created by an investment of value into technology as a source, not the site of expression, communication and construction of meaning... more

As a preliminary remark and before we take a closer look at Nicolas Collins' recent book "Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking", we must admit that there are very few works dealing with technological art that can combine successfully the artistic and the technical/technological... more

Linking eco and radio production, we can look at it from different angles, rerouting, quoting, recycling, researching, replaying, alternating: build up/reduction.
‘Eco’ first had to do with the Greek home and evolved out of reduction, eco: less of something… It also talks of recycling, of using again and again, in another dimension. An extra out of a different potential, phantas(ma)tic, specter like, in another space/time, out of this time

Over the last years there is a growing involvement of the social and cultural sector in education. But this puts us in front of a large number of questions, which are not always obvious and maybe cannot be answered easily, since the situation in which this alternative, or out-of-school learning is organized is a complex one... more

Like stated in the original pamphlet by the society of algorithm in 2002,
we criticized and are criticizing a scientific, social and mostly
cultural-artistic blindness for the achievements of more than half a
century of socio-technological developments... more

Guy Van Belle: You all know that I am involved in very different things?
Maybe it is interesting to look at the way people in the electronic arts work in general-because I am not an exception to that... more

Each technology constitutes a specific apparatus. Each apparatus permits a different relation of the artist to the tool, a different texture of image and sound, a different production of meaning, a different perception in space and time, a different relation to the spectator. No hierarchical evaluation is conceivable among these different tools.

xmedk.be/xmeda.screen.pdf
We are very happy to announce that the .x-med-a. publication is now online, free for download, sharing, printing, but most of all, for your browsing, reading and viewing pleasure... more